Friday, February 20, 2009

WHL Imports

Tomas Polak, who was a healthy scratch numerous times in the past few weeks, has left the Red Deer Rebels and returned home to the Czech Republic. By my count that leave 32 import players in the WHL. With 22 teams and 2 per team allowed the maximum would be 44.
Max Brandl, Ondrej Roman and Luca Sbisa returned to the WHL past the midway point of the season or else the total would be below 30.
Here is the unofficial country-by-country totals.
Czech Rep 13
Slovakia 7
Finland 3
Sweden 3
Russia 1
Belarus 1
Austria 1
Slovenia 1
Germany 1
Switzerland 1